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‘Catching’ your attention on the Pier Off The Hook Seafood Festival sets out to educate public about sustainable practices
Anonymous $100K donation spurs SMMEF drive Pledge campaign brings in close to $440K for local schools
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EATS: Sustainable seafood will be celebrated this weekend on the pier.
BY JENNIFER MAAS Daily Press Staff Writer
Seafood will not be in short supply this Saturday on the Santa Monica Pier, but you can be sure the bounty will not be of the overfished variety either. The inaugural Off The Hook Santa Monica Seafood Festival, a seafood tasting and community awareness event on the Pier, will take place this weekend in celebration of National Seafood Month. The event is set to bring Santa
Monica chefs together to present their favorite seafood dishes, all while raising funds and awareness for the sustainable seafood movement through a partnership with the Aquarium of the Pacific’s Seafood for the Future program. The event will feature all-youcan-eat seafood tastings, beer gardens, live music, interactive displays, cooking demos, an oyster shucking competition and educational programming, with topics
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State legislation related to affordable housing, rent control and landlord/tenants was more notable this year for what failed than what succeed, according to a report presented to the Rent Control Board last week. Brian Augusta, the RCB’s lobby-
school district, recently donated $1,400 to the Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation. The foundation’s recent Pledge Days drive was spurred on by a $100,000 matching gift from an anonymous donor.
BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Daily Press Staff Writer
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Mixed bag for renters in Sacramento BY MATTHEW HALL
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DONATION: City Council member Ted Winterer (left), who has two children in the Santa Monica-Malibu
ist in Sacramento, updated the board on significant new legislation, and while there was some good news for renters, many of the perennial issues continued to falter at the state level. Of the notable failures this year, Augusta singled out legislation on water meters and bed bugs.
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The Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation doesn’t want to be tracking down last-minute cash at the end of the school year to reach its goal. After falling short of its target last year, the fundraising arm of the Santa Monica-Malibu school district has rolled out several successful promotions in the early months of the 20152016 school year to kick off its annual campaign. The education foundation raised $439,950 during its inaugural Pledge Days drive, which began Sept. 28 and wrapped up Oct. 9. Donations were spurred on by a $100,000 matching gift from an anonymous donor,
according to SMMEF officials. More than 700 district families, employees and community members pledged money during the campaign, officials said, and campaign contributions are 70-percent higher than they were at this time last year. “We are thrilled that the community came together so positively for our first Pledge Days event and we are grateful to our anonymous donor for such a generous and inspirational match,” SMMEF board president Kathleen Rawson said in a press release. “The donations will not only support extraordinary programs for all our students, but will also show potential corporate and major donors how committed
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